Smart devices were supposed to make life better, but constant updates have made them worse

Smart devices were supposed to make life better, but constant updates have made them worse

    • Starayo@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      If I can’t run it with home assistant, I’m buying a dumb device instead.

      Trying to buy an automated feeder for my cat was a nightmare. Why does everything have a camera and require an internet connection to China? Everything was on tuya! It’s fucking ridiculous. You don’t need cloud processing for this shit. Finding something that’s just a timer with a battery backup that wouldn’t fail to feed my cat if the power or internet briefly went out took way too much effort.

      • herrvogel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Trying to set up home assistant for my parents’ house, I started seeing the point of all the cloud stuff. My dad wants to have home automation but he completely lacks the technical skills to run and maintain a home assistant instance and he’s completely unwilling to learn. Even after I’ve done all the difficult parts for him, he always manages to have trouble. The majority of those troubles could be avoided with a cloud managed service. I’m guessing there are way more people like my dad than there are who could be assed with setting up a 100% local smart home. Because that does require more than a little bit of technical inclination.

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    3 months ago

    I have to wonder if the irony is lost on the author with how ad ridden and barely usable website they posted this article on. Replace Smart Devices with Websites and the article mainly remains the same.

    • teejay@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I had the same thought. I’m viewing on mobile Firefox with UBO, but I couldn’t get the comments to load. So I loaded the url in another browser and now I have cancer.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    Oh no, if only those people that kept shouting at every opportunity how terrible these “smart” devices were had been listened to shouted louder, maybe people would be aware. But alas, everyone nobody could’ve seen that coming, it’s truly a surprise.

    we are left with the remains of a dream unfulfilled and electronics that respond to the whims, fancies, and ever-changing business decisions of corporations

    Reads straight out of !aboringdystopia

  • jaschen@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    Use home assistant. Its not very difficult to setup on an old laptop or pi or whatever you have. Its agnostic to whatever system you have. Talks between networks.

    Come join us at /homeassistant

  • 01011@monero.townEnglish
    31·
    3 months ago

    You bought a device that grants corporations back door access and control over your leisure and now they’ve used that access to make the experience worse? Why is anyone surprised? I learned my lesson with the Kindle over a decade ago. Never made that mistake again.

  • Portable4775@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    This is why I only buy shitty cheap chinese IoT devices. Less likely that they’re going to enshittify my devices for profit. Maybe use VLANs and a firewall, though.